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The dominoes continued to fall Wednesday in NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour "Silly Season" as Mike Smeriglio III Racing announced it has reached an agreement with 2012 champion Doug Coby to fill the vacant seat of its No. 2 modified.

Coby, from Milford, Conn., moves over to MSR after three stellar seasons with the No. 52 Darling Racing Team that produced eight victories and three top-five points finishes, highlighted by the 2012 championship season. MSR announced on Nov. 8 that it had parted ways with driver Todd Szegedy, just days after it was reported that the Darling team Coby drove for was scaling back to a part-time schedule for the upcoming season.

It was his second win in a row in the event. Bohn also earned the 2014 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series track championship at the Bowman Gray quarter-mile in 2014 out of the weekly modified division. Bohn gained the lead from George Brunnhoelzl III for the final time on Lap 155 and held on through three restarts. Polesitter Ryan Preece rallied from a flat tire early in the event to cross the finish line second while Jeremy Gerstner grabbed his first career podium in third place.

Ryan Blaney (No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang) won the U.S. Cellular 250, his third victory in 37 NASCAR XFINITY Series races.

This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2015. It is his first victory and fifth top-10 finish in five races at Iowa Speedway. He started second in the lineup and led 252 laps of the 260-lap race. Blaney, who made seven of the 19 NXS starts so far this season, gained one spot to 24th in the championship standings.

After leading the field in practice, Ryan Preece went out and won his ninth career Coors Light Pole in just 13 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour appearances with a fast lap of 13.202 seconds (68.171 mph).

It was his second career pole at the famed quarter-mile track. Defending race winner Danny Bohn (13.212/68.120) was second with George Brunnhoelzl III finishing out the qualifying podium (13.224/68.058). Andy Seuss and John Smith completed the top five. Current points leader Jason Myers was sixth with his brother Burt seventh. Eric Goodale, Frank Fleming and Jeremy Gerstner completed the top 10.-NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour

Andrew Ranger earned his third pole position Sunday's JuliaWine.com 50 and set the Grand Prix Trois-Rivieres (GP3R) track record in Saturday's NASCAR Canadian Tire Series qualifying.

He piloted the No. 27 Mopar/Pennzoil Dodge around the 1.53-mile, 11-turn temporary street course in 66.986 seconds for an average speed of 82.226. He eclipsed the mark of 67.080 (82.111) set by Alex Tagliani in 2013. In seven starts at GP3R, Ranger has four wins and three second-place finishes. He's also qualified in the top three spots six times. His pole gave him 16 overall for his career, putting him back in a tie with JR Fitzpatrick and Scott Steckly for most in series history.

Cole Custer, driver of the JR Motorsports No. 00 Haas Automation Chevrolet, grabbed the lead and sailed to victory Saturday in the ModSpace 125 at Pocono Raceway.

He becomes the ninth first-time winner this season in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards. Series point leader Grant Enfinger finished second and stretched his series point lead over his competitors. Matt Kurzejewski, Austin Theriault and Josh Williams finished third through fifth in the ModSpace 125.-ARCA Racing

Ryan Preece (No. 5 Chevrolet) is at the top of the speed chart in the lone practice for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour Strutmasters.com 199 at Bowman Gray Stadium.

The 13.191 second lap was the quickest of the 21 cars out on the track for the final session. No. 28 George Brunnhoelzl III, No. 11 Andy Seuss, No. 65 Danny Bohn and No. 25 John Smith are the rest of the top five on the speed chart. No. 74 Paul Hartwig Jr. was the slowest in this practice.

This is his first NCWTS victory of 2015. Busch has now won at least one race in all three of NASCAR's national series for the 10th time in his career. This is his first NCWTS victory and second top-10 finish in two races at Pocono Raceway. Busch started second in the lineup and led the most laps (53) in the 69-lap event.

Andrew Ranger (No. 27 Mopar/Pennzoil Dodge) led the first practice for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series JuliaWine.com Le 50 Tours at Circuit de Trois-Rivieres.

His 81.111 mph lap was the quickest of the 25 cars out on the track for the first practice session. No. 18 Alex Tagliani, No. 47 L.P. Dumoulin, No. 99 Marc-Antoine Camirand and No. 74 Kevin Lacroix are the rest of the top five on the speed chart. No. 77 Jocelyn Fecteau was the slowest.

Kyle Busch got back on track with a few minutes remaining in final practice for the Windows 10 400 at Pocono Raceway and jumped to the top of the leaderboard. His top speed was 175.240 mph.

Busch was only able to record eight laps after hitting the wall earlier in the session. His tendency to overdrive makes him a risky proposition, but four wins in the last five races proves his can be successful when he stays out of trouble.

Jimmie Johnson had a scary moment in the garage in Saturday’s final practice session for the Windows 10 400. He struck an unnamed hard-card carrying visitor with his Chevrolet. Hard cards are issued to crew and permanent members of the media.

The bystander was reportedly uninjured, but the incident shook the driver. It did not impact his on-track results, however, since Johnson was fourth on the speed chart midway through the session.